[doodleoo]

actually yes I'm going to look at and talk about this topic with the Christian worldview because everything is about God I'm glad you asked

[beardedmrbean]

[changelingfangs]

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

[everydaylouie]

moving day

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[perichka]

I think I'm getting better at catching his resemblance... I hope...

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Purple and Gold ~

[fiercestpurpose]

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

[noctiscorvus]

Googled it and you know what, it is beautiful:

[floralprintsharks]

[ID: a photograph of purple asters growing amidst bright yellow goldenrod flowers. End ID]

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[torchwood-99]

Eowyn wasn't embracing her "femininity" when she became a healer after a war.

Eowyn was embracing life and healing.

Eowyn didn't become a healer because she was a woman. Eowyn became a healer because the war had ended and the world needed healing.

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[ana-log]

Crazy that I’ve considered myself a Christian for probably 15 or so years but I don’t even remember ever knowing the book of Titus existed. There’s just several books of the Bible (standard protestant books, not even the theologically debated books) that I completely overlooked or wasn’t taught about???

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[tnc-n3cl]

@zeawesomebirdie

[blanketforcas]

this ratio on an incredible piece of fanart is crazy. this is not fucking pinterest guys if you wanna see more of what fandom has to offer then you have to be willing to show others the beautiful rocks you find

[microsff]

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

[lionessfeather]

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

[streatfeild]

@boltlightning

[gothhabiba]

I love not playing along

[gothhabiba]

"she's gained a lot of weight lately" "oh, good for her"

"on the wrong side of 40" "huh, which side is that?"

❗️I am not playing along with you❗️

[augustfairie]

“ how do you expect to catch a man at your age?” “Rope”

[blessthosewhocurseyou]

Hole in the ground camouflaged with leaves

[thatsastepladder]

As a dude, can confirm, if someone left a sandwich under a very obvious box trap I'd fall for it.

[merkerlerspeaks]

Scrolling online and see a man complaining about women only wanting to have sex when they feel like it. Like....bro do you want women to have sex with you when they dont want too? Why would you want to sleep with someone that doesnt want to sleep with you?

[merkerlerspeaks]

To make it worse too this was under a video where a MAN was telling OTHER men how their anger at being rejected creates an unsafe environment to say no and thus makes it intimidating as a whole for their wives. And some guy being like "this normalizes rejection" no it doesn't. If you are both people who enjoy and want sex and shes constantly saying no, there is SOMETHING off. It is not normalizing rejection but even if it was, wives should be safe to tell their husbands no because forcing yourself to have sex when you do not want it is definitionally traumatic to the mind and body and creates negative association with something that is supposed to express love and affection. That is NOT healthy. Legit what is wrong with you if you want to do that to your spouse instead of address the cause? Then this guy responds to him complaining "yeah bro they only wanna have sex when they feel like it bro. They trap us in marriage where they only wanna do it maybe once a week bro." Im sorry you feel so unloved in your marriage David but from that alone I can guarantee your wife has it worse because it sounds like thats your primary concern with what you get from her. Give her love and affection without expectation and see if she starts wanting to initiate, David. Let your wife know you love her outside of sex David and maybe she will want to have it with you. "Even mediocre sex is better than doomscrolling" maybe to you it is David but if you aren't wanting sex, no it isnt.

Love your spouses enough to be willing to let go of those expectations and theyre much more likely to come to you. And if you see the video in question. Dont let the point fly over your head and close your ears to whats being said. David doesn't listen. Dont be like David.